At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), there was a panel discussion entitled, “Delivering on RISC V’s Promise to Give Designers Freedom to Innovate – What’s Needed?”. A key message from the panel is that there’s much greater momentum within the ecosystem, and as the CEO of RISC-V International, Calista Redmond, told embedded.com at the conference, “RISC-V is not in the future, and it’s a reality now.”